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www.spec.com.au HAMILTON SPECTATOR Saturday March 14 2015 5 55 years of dispensing medicine and advice RICK KOENIG ROBSON’S pharmacy in Hamilton has lost long time pharmacist David Kennett who retired yesterday after 55 years of service. Raised and educated in Hamilton, Mr Kennett was the dux of Hamilton High School in 1960 and continued his academic brilliance when he attended Parkville’s Victorian College of Pharmacy in 1961. Mr Kennett was the dux of his class for three consecutive years at the college and completed his Bachelor of Pharmacy in 1964. He received five major awards while studying including the prestigious third year gold medal. Originally inspired by his uncle Sam Reed, of Reed’s Pharmacy in Coleraine, Mr Kennett was the first pharmacist in the Hamilton district to hold a Bachelor of Pharmacy. Having previously worked at Robson’s Pharmacy in Hamilton during university vacations, Mr Kennett formed a joint partnership in 1968 with Stanley Robson Senior and Lloyd Hocking to operate both “David Lloyd Pharmacy” and “Robson’s Pharmacy” in Gray Street. Always planning to return home, Mr Kennett said: “I wanted to come back to the country after four years in the city, I didn’t like living in the city and that’s really why I came to Robson’s.” Recognised as one of the most harmonious partnerships in the district, Mr Kennett and Mr Hocking’s partnership continued after Mr Robson’s death in 1995 before both businesses were sold to Degen Murphy of Ballarat 1999. in The two pharmacies then combined into what we know today as Robson’s Pharmacy at 160 Gray Street. Mr Kennett said he experienced five refits of the pharmacy while working there and had to DAVID KENNETT discard his work clothes each time as they were “impregnated with brick dust.” Describing his decision to retire as “apprehensive”, Mr Kennett said he believed “the time to retire is right.” “I have enjoyed my time here and I’m apprehensive to leave which I suppose is because I’ve been doing it for so long, so I think I’ll miss it,” he said. “My wife Julie and myself believe now is the best for both of us and I’d like to thank all of our nice customers who I’ve enjoyed dealing with over the years. “I’m definitely going to miss them, I have no immediate plans for the future but I’ll be staying in Hamilton.” A private man of few words, Mrs Kennett described her husband as “a professional person through and through”. “When he first started working with Stan Robson, Stan said ‘poor boy, he doesn’t know what it’s like to come second, because he never did’,” she said. “He had every chance of going off and doing any kind of research, he had so many offers after completing university but he just wanted to come home. “He’s a country boy at heart and he just wanted to return to his hometown.” With current manager Robyn Ward set to continue managing the pharmacy, Mrs Kennett said her husband’s Jobs slashed at ‘The Standard’ REX MARTINICH THE Warrnambool Standard will lose up to 16 staff members after the newspaper’s owner, Fairfax Media, announced a plan to “revitalise its newsrooms in regional Victoria.” Fairfax put forward a “proposal” to its staff on Wednesday that would include 80 “voluntary redundancies” across the company’s regional newspapers. Horsham’s Wimmera Mail-Times, also owned by Fairfax, will be affected by the proposal. The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA) journalists’ union said it was “appalled at the savage loss of jobs” and claimed that “losses will be among reporters, sub-editors and photographers”. A statement from Fairfax Media’s management said the proposal would eliminate “62 newsroom roles including management, sub-editing and photography” but would also offer new equipment and training for journalists. The statement did not rule out a reduction in the numbers of local journalists but did state Fairfax Media would not close any of its mastheads as part of the current proposal. Fairfax Media’s rural and regional newspapers are managed under an entity called Community Media’ (ACM). Fairfax’s latest financial report showed that ACM was ‘Australian one of the company’s worst performing divisions, with revenue falling 7.4 per cent despite increased costs. ACM director John Angilley said the proposal to staff was “all about setting our newspapers and websites up for the future” and was “the result of extensive consideration of the needs of the business”. “Our plan is to upgrade our newsrooms by adopting more efficient ways of working, new systems, digitalfirst editorial production practices, and a vastly better local sales approach,” he said. Fairfax’s regional journalists have stated on social media that most of the company’s photographers will be let go at some of its major regional newspapers. A Fairfax Media press release that announced the “modern news plan for regional Victoria” was published as a news story across all of Fairfax’s regional news websites at 11.30am on Wednesday. The Warrnambool Standard later amended the story to announce up to 16 job losses at its local operation, but it did not state how many of those jobs would be from the newsroom. MEAA chief executive Paul Murphy said “the scale of the cuts will be devastating for the rural mastheads and the communities they serve”. “When a masthead loses reporters and photographers there is a direct loss of local news reporting because there are fewer staff on the ground involved in newsgathering and the vital role of scrutinising the powerful and holding them to account,” he said. New Season Knitwear NOW IN STORE * Layby available 99 Gray Street, Hamilton retirement would be a “big loss” to the business. “Talking to people around, he’ll be hugely missed, he was always there to give professional advice,” she said. “He’s an old school type of pharmacist, very genuine person and a gentleman, and that’s a wife saying that. “Fifty years we’ve been married and to still be able to say that, he’s a lovely person and I certainly couldn’t have wished for a better husband.” he’s a Looking forward to spending more time together, Mrs Kennett said the two planned to travel Australia at some point in the future, something they’ve put off since they met. “We’re avid travellers, probably from the age of 25 we’ve travelled and that’s been good for the business, to get away and have a holiday rather than slogging away,” she said. “That was part of his theory as well, how important a decent break every year was. “We do a lot of overseas travelling but we’ve left travelling Australia until much later in our life. “We don’t have big plans, we’ll have a quiet life and work out our little holiday, there’s still a few places we want to go and spend some time in. “David has thoroughly enjoyed his time in the business but it’s time for him to have some time to himself, and he’s served the Hamilton district which he grew up in well.” Feel the warmth of wool this winter! 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